The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-09-29
The G. A. E. Parade in a
Heavy RainstOrm.
JUNGLE BILLY'S" RUNAWAY.
The Commander-in-C Chiefs Annual
Address-HenIthy Growth OF the
g. A R.-Etc.
The Grand Army.

morning on the veterans of the G. A. K.
than on any day since their arrival.
Everything was drenched, including the
ardur Of the soldiers and civilians as
well. Thousands of veterans, after wait
ing so long IN the wet and mud to
realize the promises of the signal servi- e
officer, to-day, started for home; yet
there were untold thousands left aud
Grand NJ 4rshal Grier issued an order to
prepare for the parade, commanding the
army to move at 10 O'Clock without fail.
When the order to fall in for the
parade was ceiVed at various camps
and headquarter: the men tumbled out
OF their tents anu rooms prepared for
battle with the eleme nts, with rubber
coats and umbrellas, and trousers
rolled up. It was l o'clock when the
column was formed and Grand Marshal
Grier ordered the escort of mounted
police forward. Then followed the
Grand M, rshal with his chief of staff,
and General A. J. Smith and
aides, logan Post of 81. LOUIS,
mounted and Springfield, Mass.
battalion, special escort to the COM
mander-in-chief, who followed a few
yards behind, bowling to the crowds
who greeted him with applause. HIS
staff of 100 men mounted preceded
twenty carriages moving three abreast
in which were governors and other
honored guests In the lead was one
occupied by Mayor Francis and Gen
eral W. T. Sherman. Although closely
sheltered from The rain and sight, the
crowds on the sidewalks soon found
where the old commander was and
cheer upon cheer marked his progress,
while frequent groups Of men would
rush from the shelter to the
carriage door to grasp his hand
Then followed divisions of the Grand
Army, ten in all, composed as follows:
First Department of Missouri, Colonel
Nelson Cole, assista marshall second,
Department of Illinois, Colonel J. G.
Butler, assistant marshal; third, Wis
consin, Pennsylvania and Ohio, Gov
ernor Thomas @. Fletcher, assistant
marshal; fourth, New York, Connect
Massachu etts. Maine, New Jersey and
Virginia, Colonel D. P. Dyer, assistant
marshal; fifth, California, New Hamp-
land, Major Leo Rasseur. assistant
marshal; sixth, Indiana, Major e. f.
Weigel, assistant marshall seventh,
Iowa, Nebraska and Colorado, General
John Mcneil, assistant marshal: eighth.
Kansas, G lionel John B. Gondole,
assistant marshal: ninth, Michigan,
Delaware, West Virginia, Washington
Territory and Kentucky: Colonel Chas.
G. Strefel, assistant marshal; Tenth
Arkansas. Florida, cuff. Dakota. Ore
gou, New Mexico, Montana, Rhode
Island, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas
Utah, Idaho, Arizona, Brigade of Naval
Veterans, and sons of Veterans, Cap
tain Henry Zaigenheim assistant mar
shall. Here and there post armed with
muskets or drum corps broke the
mOnotony of the line. AS the column
passed under the beautiful stained glass
transparency of General Grant, of
Fourth Street between Locust and st.
Charles all the men uncovered their
heads and passed by III silence.
General Sherman and the reviewing
officers stood in the rain which came
harder as the procession passed the re-
viewing stand. 1t took the Missouri divi-
sion twenty-five minutes to pass. The
colored posts were cheered. The tat
tered battle flags called for enthusiastic
cheers.
The Sons of Veterans brought up the
rear and when they had passed the
stand the ranks were broken and the
parade was over.
The head of the procession reached
Grand Army Arch, that spans Olive
Street at. Twelfth at noon, and
Commander-in Chief Fairchild, General
Sherman, Vice-PreSidenJ Hannibal
Hamlin, the war governors and other
distinguished guests left their carriages
and took positions in the grand stand,
east of the arch. Across the street and
facing the grand stand Grand Marshal
Cries and staff sat IN their saddles,
while the rain increased in volumes.
For an hour and half it poured down
on the heads of the passing soldiers.
The Missouri contingent was twenty
FIVE minutes in passing; the Illinois
was fifteen minutes, Kansas twelve.
Other States were represented by
of march were thousands of boys
il blue who thought it too
wet to march, In the balcony of the
grand stand, Commauder-in Chief
Fsirchild and General Sherman, partly
protected from the storm, bowed to the
boys as they passed, acknowledging the
continually rousing cheers that went up
from each post as they filed by in COM
pany front. Here and there, through
different divisions, marched c0lOred
post, and their salute was invariably
the signal for applause from the grand
stand, which several times was taken up
by the crowd and prolonged into hearty
cheers The dripping flags received
much boisterous notice, and SIS a SQUAD
carrying tattered remnants of battle
flags passed bv. the enthusiasm became
unbounded. Throughout the column
an occasional warrior carried cane or
pole on which was dangling chicken,
a leg of mutton, side of bacon, cab
hage or some other representative of
.~t-1.-s expedition or commIssary
stores.
As the right of the line reached its
destination, the troops broke ranks and
FASTENED back to the reviewing stand
TO get a glimpse of the commander.
They came with a rush that threat
ened the destruction of the rest
of the column, but the mounted
staff OF the Illinois division
soon forced its way through the crowd.
and cleared the passage. At 1.30 o'clock
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